Nearly 319,000 Black women have been pushed out of the workforce in the past three months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) is urging Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to help address these concerning statistics. On September 8th, Pressley wrote a letter to Powell, saying, “In August 2025, 6.7% of Black women faced unemployment, which is above the already high national average of 4.3%.. This disparity should not go overlooked as unemployment of Black women is a key metric of the health of the US economy.”